{"id":4223,"date":"2006-04-25T01:20:06","date_gmt":"2006-04-25T01:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=4223"},"modified":"2009-10-27T12:07:39","modified_gmt":"2009-10-27T18:07:39","slug":"black-holes-are-fuel-efficient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2006\/04\/black-holes-are-fuel-efficient\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Holes are fuel efficient"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/blackholecarengines-505x133.jpg\" alt=\"blackholecarengines\" title=\"blackholecarengines\" width=\"505\" height=\"133\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8912\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/blackholecarengines-505x133.jpg 505w, https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/blackholecarengines.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 505px) 100vw, 505px\" \/><br \/>black is the new &#8216;green&#8217;<\/div>\n<blockquote><p>(SPACE.com) &#8212; A new study finds that supermassive black holes, located at the heart of some galaxies, are the most fuel efficient engines in the universe.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/TECH\/space\/04\/24\/black.holes\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">If you could make a car engine that was as efficient as one of these black holes, you could get about a billion miles out of a gallon of gas<\/a>,&#8221; said study team leader Steve Allen of the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology at Stanford University.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In anyone&#8217;s book, that would be pretty green.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Once gas comes within a distance about a million times larger than the event horizon of the black hole, it becomes gravitationally captured,&#8221; Allen explained. &#8220;At this point the gas becomes fuel for the black hole engine.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What&#8217;s with all the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/mt-archives\/005145.php\">Black Hole articles <\/a>lately?<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diepunyhumans.com\" class=\"external external_icon\">diepunyhumans<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>black is the new &#8216;green&#8217; (SPACE.com) &#8212; A new study finds that supermassive black holes, located at the heart of some galaxies, are the most fuel efficient engines in the universe. &#8220;If you could make a car engine that was as efficient as one of these black holes, you could get about a billion miles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,77],"tags":[1675,4928],"class_list":["post-4223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","category-the-future","tag-black-hole-fun","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}